Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018
| Eurovision Song Contest 2018 | ||||
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 Israel
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| Selection process |
Artist: HaKokhav HaBa L'Eurovizion Song: Internal Selection |
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| Selection date(s) |
Artist: TBA Song: TBA |
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| Selected entrant | TBA | |||
| Selected song | "TBA" | |||
| Selected songwriter(s) | TBA | |||
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Israel will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. The Israeli broadcaster Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC) will collaborate with the commercial broadcaster Keshet and Tedy Productions which will organize the reality singing competition HaKokhav HaBa L'Eurovizion ("The Next Star For Eurovision") to select the singer, while the song will be chosen by a committee of the Israeli broadcaster.
Prior to the 2018 Contest, Israel had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest forty times since its first entry in 1973. Israel has won the contest on three occasions: in 1978 with the song "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" performed by Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta, in 1979 with the song "Hallelujah" performed by Milk and Honey and in 1998 with the song "Diva" performed by Dana International. Since the introduction of semi-finals to the format of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2004, Israel has, to this point, managed to qualify to the final seven times, including three top ten results in 2005 with Shiri Maimon and "Hasheket Shenish'ar" placing fourth, in 2008 with Boaz and "The Fire In Your Eyes" placing ninth, and in 2015 with Nadav Guedj and "Golden Boy" placing ninth. Israel had failed to qualify to the final for four consecutive years between 2011 and 2014 prior to their qualification in 2015. In 2017, Imri Ziv represented Israel in Kyiv, Ukraine with the song "I Feel Alive". It ended 23rd out of 26 entries in the final.
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